Kenny Kwong

Kenny Kwong is an Associate Professor, Chair of Social Work Research, and Director of Asian American Social Work Initiative at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. Dr. Kwong teaches courses on research, psychopathology, clinical social work practice in health care, and identity and social justice.

Dr. Kwong has more than 20 years of professional social work and managerial experiences in health and mental health. Much of his clinical social work and community health practice has been focused on low-income Asian immigrant populations in urban settings. He has developed a crucial and in-depth understanding of the barriers and socio-economic constraints faced by immigrants attempting to access health and mental health treatment.

Dr. Kwong's current research interests are in the areas of prolonged parent-child separations, and work-related stress and career choices of Asian American social workers.

Asian-American Social Workers’ Career, Stress, and Well-Being

By

Research on Asian-American career choice, career experience, work-related stress, and well-being has been extremely limited. Based on a comprehensive online survey with a total of 208 Asian-American social work administrators, supervisors, practitioners, and graduate social work students, Prof. Kenny Kwong will present on the career choices, barriers and prospects, work-related stress, and professional quality of life Asian-American social workers.

Read more